IMPORTANT ITEMS: MARKETING FRUIT. 1U 



but tons of Apples are offered for sale, specked and 

 clear all mixed together, just as they come from the 

 trees. It is a costly mistake. Every season, both 

 in London and other markets, English ' Blenheim 

 Orange Apples cannot be sold for more than a 

 shilling a bushel, while " foreigners" of the same 

 variety realise four times the price. There is as 

 much difference between the two as is represented 

 in fig. 38, below, in which sorted and unsorted 



Fig. 38. APPLES FOR MARKET, SORTED AND UNSORTED. 



Apples are shown side by side. Is another sentence 

 needed to enforce the better way ? One is required 

 for urging growers not only to sort their fruit but 

 to let the bulk be uniform throughout. That is the 

 American plan. If a thousand barrels are sold by 

 auction, only one, or at most two, are opened, and 



